Cloak and Gavel: FBI Wiretaps, Bugs, Informers and the Supreme Court (University of Illinois Press 1992) http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/56hkt3pm9780252018718.html
"Charns's "Cloak and Gavel" . . . is the product of an eight-year struggle to force the FBI to reveal its Supreme Court snooping. Using the Freedom of Information Act and lawsuits, . . . Charns got . . . hard evidence that Hoover attempted to monitor the court's private deliberations and manipulate some of the justices." Wall Street Journal, A13, 9/1/92
"The FBI's scandalous techniques ranged from illegal wiretapping, to disinformation campaigns, to using Justice Abe Fortas as a Bureau informant." Harvard Law Review, Vol 106, p. 812.
"The result [of "Cloak and Gavel"] is a bonanza of Supreme Court history, providing depth and perspective to some great cases of and perspective to some great cases of our time." St Louis Post-Dispatch, 10/18/92.
Charns' FBI papers were donated to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and are stored at the Southern Historical Collection:
www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/c/Charns,Alexander.html
Other publications include "How it took Thirteen Years and Two Lawsuits to get J. Edgar Hoover's Secret Supreme Court Sex Files," (co-written with Paul M. Green), A. Theoharis (editor),
Culture of Secrecy: The Government vs. The People's Right to Know (Univ. of Kansas Press 1998); A. Charns (editor), U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Judges FBI Files, (UPA 1992) (microfiche);
How Hockey Saved the World* (iUniverse 2006)(see Caniac Hockey section for click through) and
Diary of an Exploding Judge (iUniverse 2003), a murder mystery.